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Announcements

EVENT CALENDAR

RCMAR Webinar Series, Incorporating Conceptual Models into Your Research Proposals
Learn to describe best practices for creating effective conceptual models and discuss strategies for incorporating them into proposals for submission to NIH. Session led by Clemma Muller, PhD, MS, Assistant Research Professor at Washington State University. Please share this announcement with your colleagues who may be interested in the webinar.

RCMAR Webinar Series, National Datasets for Research on Reversibility of Effects of Early Life Adversity

Learn about what public use datasets are useful for examining stress, trauma, and other adversity in early life and the potential reversibility of its effects. Session led by
Teresa Seeman, PhD, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology in the Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA and
Sharon Merkin, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Geriatrics, UCLA. You may listen to and view the full session here:

Loretta Jones received the UCLA Medal, the university’s highest honor, on Dec. 4. She is founder and executive director of Los Angeles-based Healthy African American Families, is a member of the UCLA CHIME Community Action Board, and has been the community mentor for numerous CHIME Scholars. Ms. Jones has also been on the UCLA IRB and centrally involved with many UCLA research and training projects. Past recipients of the UCLA Medal include author Toni Morrison, President Bill Clinton, architect I.M. Pei, UN secretaries general Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, Pediatric AIDS Foundation founder Elizabeth Glazer and UCLA alumna and astronaut Anna Lee Fisher.

JOURNALISTS IN AGING FELLOW: “U.S. Stumbles Toward Day of Reckoning with Rising Retirement Crisis,” NMPolitics/New America Media, News Analysis, Kent Paterson , Posted: Sep 04, 2017. Link: http://tinyurl.com/yawgr2ny. The number of U.S. Elders will double to 81.2 Million by 2040. But the federal poverty level fails to show the crisis looming for seniors in meeting the real cost of living.

NIH has developed a new portal with information on supporting diversity in NIH-funded research. The main areas of focus are: 1. Background on NIH initiatives in support of scientific workforce diversity; 2. Resources for scientific leadership & faculty members to use to further diversity in their programs; 3. Resources for investigators and trainees to develop their careers, find training and mentorship, and learn about others’ careers through personal stories and video interviews; and 4. Reports and data on diversity in the NIH-supported workforce, and in the broader research workforce. See
https://extramural-diversity.nih.gov/

The National Institute on Aging (NIA)-funded UC Davis Latino Aging Research Resource Center (LARRC) and Alzheimer’s Disease Center (ADC) hosted an
all-day conference on March 16, 2016 on “Cognitive Aging and Diversity: Progress and Future Challenges.” This conference highlighted NIA funded research
in Northern California associated with UC Davis and UC San Francisco and brought together leading national experts from across the country and over 100 attendees

Job Opening - Assistant or Associate Professor of Sociology.
The Department of Sociology at California State University Dominguez Hills is seeking applications from individuals who study aging in Black communities. This is a tenure track position. For more information: http://bit.ly/2hi2s7b.For questions, contact Dr. Matt Mutchler, Chair of the Search Committee at mmutchler@csudh.edu

Tenure track (hard money), Associate Professor opening at Washington State University at the Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH), a new well-funded entity focused on health disparities research among Native, Latino, and rural populations. The incumbent will primarily work with Partnerships for Native Health (P4NH), a program to improve the health and quality of life of American Indian and Alaska Native populations. P4NH has more than a dozen active NIH-funded research projects and centers that range from Alzheimer’s disease to health literacy; most of our work uses culturally tailored interventions. Our work also involves training Native scientists. More details and application are at https://www.wsujobs.com/postings/32119. Questions can be directed to the RCMAR/NERC CoDirector Dedra Buchwald, MD at dedra.buchwald@wsu.edu.

The RCMAR National Coordinating Center is based at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Contact us at RCMAR@ucla.edu.

The Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) is a national initiative to improve the health of minority Americans through scholarship, better public health interventions, and by fostering and mentoring the next generation of minority scholars.